Elvis transcends his talent to the point of dispensing with it altogether.

Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail

Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.

I want another idea, another project, but you can't make them up. They show up.

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Every youth movement presents itself as a loan to the future, and tries to call in its lien in advance, but when there is no future all loans are canceled.

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.

Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.

If Bob Dylan really is an historian in and of himself in his work, in his performances, he is also an historian with a unique sense of humor. There's always been a bit of a stand-up comic in him.

Inconceivable!""You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

My whole life has been one big broken promise.

The only thing you have totalcontrol over is who you choose to be.Be the best you can be.

The morning is always my best time of the day for writing because that's when my head is best.

Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

I discovered that I was part of a Parkinson's community with similar experiences and similar questions that I'd been dealing with alone.

My Internet friends who I play games with say, 'This guy's a fighter?' I'm the last person they expect to be a fighter.

What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can't imagine until you come up with the idea. It's idea-based. You can do anything.

If the masses can love without knowing why, they also hate without much foundation.